Presser-wheel for knitting-machines



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P. S. KINSEY.

PRESSER WHEEL FUR KNITTING MACHINES.

Patented Feb. 1, 1887.

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P. S. KINSEY.

PRESSBR WHEEL FOR KNITTING MACHINES.

No. 356,843. Patented Feb. 1, 1887.

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PETER S. KINSEY, OF NEYVARK, NEW JERSEY.

PRESSER-WHEEL FOR KNlTTlNG-MACHlNES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 356,843, dated February 1, 1887.

Application filed March 18, 1884.

To (all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PETER S. KInsnY, of the city of Xewark, county of Essex, State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement irnPresser-Wheels for Knitting- Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists in a presser-wheel for knitting-machines, formed with a multiplicity IO of radially-arranged slots in the rim or periphery of the wheel and provided with adjusta ble blades fitted to the slots and adapted to close the beards of the needles and effect the stitch, or by adjustment to pass the beards I 5 without effecting the stitch.

By my improvement; the presser wheel can be operated in the ordinary manner in its usual bearings and without a change of position in its axial rotation with relation to the needles,

2c and as constructed, by removing some of its blades, so that in its rotation it will skip some of the needlebeards, and by retaining some of the blades in place, so that it will engage to close the beards of other of the needles, my improved presser-wheel does all the work of the older devices without the aid of any additional mechanism to operate the resser-wheel.

Accompanying this specification and forming a part of it are two plates of drawings containing five figures illustrating my invention, with the same designation of its parts by lettier-reference used in all of them.

Of these illustrations, Figure 1 shows a perspective of my improved presser-wheel with the cap which holds the blades in place removed. Fig. 2 shows a central vertical section taken through the body part of the wheel,

the cap, and nut, which secures the blades inplace within the body part. Fig. 3 shows one c of the blades as removed from the device. Fig.

4 illustrates my improved presser-wheel as applied to a knitting-machine, and Fig. 5 shows the cap as removed from the wheel.

The several parts of the device thus illus- 5 trated are designated by letters of reference, and the function of the parts is described as follows:

The letter A indicates the body part of the presser-wheel, which is hollowed out between its center shaft-passage and its outer rim, as

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indicated at a, so as to leave a thicker part, a at the rim, and extending inwardly therefrom.

The letters S indicate slots that are formed in the outer edge of the body part at right angles to the face of the rim, and which slots are from the outer edge of the wheel or body part radially extended inwardly toward the vertical bearing of the latter, the said slots, where thus radially extended inwardly, lieingformed in the thicker portion of the body part, indicated at a". As thus produced, that part of these slots which are in the rim of the wheel are arranged therein on a line that is parallel to the-axis of the wheel, and they are made wide enough for the passing needles of the knitting-machine cylinder to enter therein and pass out therefrom without having the needlebeards pressed in to complete a stitch.

The letters B indicate blades th at'are adapted to fit into the slots sons to fill the latter, but which blades are so arranged when within the slots as not to pass outwardly beyond the rim of the body part, the outer ends of the blades, with the parts of the rim between the slots, forming a continuous surface, like an ordinary p ressc r-wh eel.

The letter C designates a cap that is made to go on over the inserted blades, and to be secured in such position to retain the latter by the nut n, which is made to thread onto the hub 11 of the wheel, the latter being provided with an opening for the shaft D.

The letter T designates the standard which supports the arm M, in which the shaft D of 85 the presser-wheel is mounted.

The letter N designates the needles of the knitting-machine, K the cylinder of thelatter, and VV the web or fabric formed by the needles.

Thus made and applied, the blades can be removed from, to open, or applied to, to close, any of the radial slots or openings formed in the periphery and upper face of the wheel, and when removed from the slots of said wheel the latter will pass the needles without closing their beards, and where the blades are. applied the wheel will press in the needles beards for slipping off the stitches. A presserwheel thus made is adapted to the use of a great many changes and combinations for the 10c production of figured knitting from the various positions in which the blades can be placed and be changed as desired. Thefunction of the slots or openings radially produced in the periphery and upper face of the presser-wheel being to allow the passing needles to mesh into the periphery of the wheel while passing, with-1- out having the wheel press in the beards of the needles, any form of slot or opening that will dothis maybe used, and the function ot the applied blades being to close up such slots or openings, any form of blade that can be so applied may be used, provided that theouter ends of said blades when applied to the slots shall extend to the outer edge of the wheel, so

as .to come in contact with the passing needlebeards to press them in, but which outer ends of the blades shall not extend beyond the wheel-rim. 1 A

I am well aware that a dividing-wheel for a.weft-thread loom has been used, which contained radially-arranged dividing-plates andintermediate spaces for the insertionof adj ustable notched teeth, so constructed and arranged that any number of needles can be I sprung out ofline. This older device referred to differed from mine, in the fact that in the latterthe spaces or slots arranged in the rim of the wheel receive'the needles, so as not to pressin the beards thereof; and in this older construction the notches which received the needles were formed in adjustable teeth that were insertedwithin the radial slots or spaces. l

The only adjustable parts in'niy device used in connection with the radial slots are the blades, and these are employed to fill up, the

radial spaces where applied, so that the wheel will press in thebeards thereat, the function ofthebladesin my device when inserted within the slots being just the reverse of the adjustable notched teeth'of the other mechanism.

I am also aware thatknitting-machine burrs have been made with slots obliquely formedin the wheel-rim, to receive burr-blades that projeoted beyond the latter, for a functional pur pose.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by LcttersPatent,

body provided with radially-arranged slots which in its peripheral face are in line with 0, the nut n, and the hub H, said parts being,

construc'tedand arranged to operate substantiallyin the manner as andwfor the purposes set forth.

3. The combination of the bodyA, formed.

with a threaded 'hub, H, hollowed-out part a, and thicker peripheral rim a, provided with radial slots S, the bottoms ofwhichare on: a line with the floor of the hollowed-outportion a, with the adjustable blades 13, fitted inlsaid radial slots, the cap :0, set over the blades, and 1 a retaining-nut, a, substantially as described,

and for the purpose stated.

PETERS. KINSEY.

Witnesses:

SAML. MoRRow, J12, J. A; BEECHER.

1. The combination, with a presser-wheel 

